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NOISE CONTROL
Pitter-patter of female feet to be quieted by carpeting
By Emery Goad
It's always the girls that get all the attention around here, a KU man complained the other day.
"They get what? . . . next it will be GSP Hotel," replied another male.
The women living in Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall will tread softly next fall.
"We are installing an estimated $12,900 in carpeting there," said J. J. Wilson, director of housing.
"Negative," report officials, but GSP may not be the only hall to be carpeted eventually.
"IF THIS PROVES successful after one year, we would like to expand the program to all the residence halls," Wilson said. "We will go back to the Board of Regents with our results and ask for their approval. It would probably cost around $100,000 for everyone in our halls to have the carpet," he said.
installed either late in the semester or this summer. Wilson said bids for the carpeting will be taken in the next few weeks.
The bare floors in the hall will disappear when the carpets are
GSP residents' reaction to the project was expressed by Merry Sue Clark, Wichita freshman and hall president.
WHEN BUILT IN 1955, KU's second oldest residence hall was not provided with soundproofing or absorption material of the type installed in the other buildings, Wilson explained. "This is the area where there is the greatest problem with noise," he said.
"This is great news," she said. "We're hoping for orange."
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Monday, March 7, 1966
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Dormitory officials estimate it will take approximately 950 square yards of carpeting to cover the 11 hallways.
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"Aren't they going to bring it into the rooms?" inquire residents.
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